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Hi we bought a detached house in December 2016. At the front of our house there is our drive and garden. Then in front of our house there is a drive that stops at next doors garage. Next door is in the corner. On our deeds and the plan shows it too. It says that the drive belongs to us and neighbours have access.

A person bought the house last month to rent it. Now new tenants are moving in. We asked the letting agents to ask the ll to request thst his tenants don't park on the drive.

We have been told that the ll thinks he owns the drive. He contacted his solicitor who said there are two different plans for his house.

Ll is coming to see us on Monday.

If next door park at the top of the drive it doesn't cause any problems (apart from having to see their car when we look out of living room window ) also if it got damaged we would have to pay for repairs.
If they another car parks behind their car then it means it's a struggle to get off our drive and we wouldn't be able to get back on the drive. (We have to reverse on to our drive)

Personally - I'd take a photocopy of both my modern day Title Plan and the original Deeds and have them ready to give him on Monday.

Sounds like you've got all the proof you need that the drive is yours.

What is confusing me is your post is somewhat unclear in a couple of respects. One of them being that you say "our drive and garden" at the front of your house. You also say "Then in front of our house there is a drive that stops at next doors garage".

Are there two drives?

If there's "4 tendencies" type of people (Gretchen Rubin) = yep....Questioner type here
- Meets an expectation only if they believe it's justified and resists anything arbitrary or ineffective

Personally - I'd take a photocopy of both my modern day Title Plan and the original Deeds and have them ready to give him on Monday.

Sounds like you've got all the proof you need that the drive is yours.

What is confusing me is your post is somewhat unclear in a couple of respects. One of them being that you say "our drive and garden" at the front of your house. You also say "Then in front of our house there is a drive that stops at next doors garage".

Thank you for your help. There are two drives. One drive that is right out side our house. Then the other drive is at the side of it. We have to drive on to this other drive so we can park on the drive right outside our house. Three quarters of the drive run along our property. Then the last quarter is next to the house next door. The last quarter is not big enough for a car to park there with out been partly parked outside our hoyse. Would it help if I posted a link to our house on right move.

I get the impression from this it's the same as our set up, although I may be wrong. In that case by "drive" do you mean there is a car port at right angles to the driveway where you park and the neighbours garage faces the driveway at the top of it with the road at the bottom?

If that's the situation - then it looks as if "drive in front of my house" is just on OPs land and there isnt access over that particular drive to the neighbours house and it is just that houses' drive. It looks as if OP needs to drive over the other drive in order to get to their drive - and hence it cant be blocked or they wouldnt be able to do so.

If there's "4 tendencies" type of people (Gretchen Rubin) = yep....Questioner type here
- Meets an expectation only if they believe it's justified and resists anything arbitrary or ineffective

I agree it is strange. It's like the builders just shoved a house on the end.

They do have a drive right outside their house which is within their front garden. It does look like it ishould not the easiest drive to access.

We can park on this second drive. But we don't as we would have move our car every time our neighbour needed to get to their drive or leave their drive.

If they park on our drive outside the garage then part of their car is outside our garden. This is where me and my husband are in disagreement. He thinks we should let them park outside their garage as long as they keep to the top so it does not make it difficult for us to access the drive next to our house. Whereas I don't think we should allow any parking.

If that's the situation - then it looks as if "drive in front of my house" is just on OPs land and there isnt access over that particular drive to the neighbours house and it is just that houses' drive. It looks as if OP needs to drive over the other drive in order to get to their drive - and hence it cant be blocked or they wouldnt be able to do so.

We do need to drive on the second drive in order to access the drive that is right outside our hoyse. Like you say the drive can't be blocked as we wouldn't be able to get on our drive. The paper work says that drive is ours and neighbours have access.

You would think it was common sense. Bit when ll was preparing the hpuse to let. He would park his big car outside the garage. Then on occasions there would be a car parked behind his. When then made getting off the drive difficult and I couldn't get back on the drive.

Before the house sold I did park on the second drive. Then it sold and ll asked me not to park on it anymore. I stopped parking there and parked outside our house.

In your position - I'd say that the neighbour is entitled to park on the drive leading to their garage - as long as in the process they don't block your access in any way.

I would certainly hate it if they parked in front of my front lawn (ie where I could see their car "slap bang in my face" the second I looked out my front window. But then I don't have a car myself........

The question is, purely and simply, though as to whether they have legal ownership of that part of the drive leading up to their garage. If they do - they are perfectly entitled to park there (even if their car would be an eyesore to a non car-owner such as myself).

If they don't own that bit of drive - then they certainly arent entitled to park on it (even if not blocking your access). The question then arises as to whether they have Right of Way to drive up that drive into their garage - and I would imagine there must be a provision written down in your/their Title Plan/Registration document saying that they do (because it would be ridiculous to have a garage one physically wasnt allowed to drive into).

It's easy enough though@
- Your set of papers on the one hand
- Their set of papers on the other hand (which you can get instantly over the Internet for just a few £s).

Compare the two to see:
- just who owns that bit of drive
- if you are the owner of it - then check for anything written about them having a ROW.

EDIT; Even if you are the owner of that drive to his garage - you arent allowed to park on it yourself - as you would be blocking his ROW.

Last edited by moneyistooshorttomention; 18-03-2017 at 9:50 AM.

If there's "4 tendencies" type of people (Gretchen Rubin) = yep....Questioner type here
- Meets an expectation only if they believe it's justified and resists anything arbitrary or ineffective

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